Bicentennial: Poems

by Dan Chiasson

Book Overview

From the acclaimed poet--a refreshing, singular collection of poems about boys and boyhood, historical cycles and personal history, memory and meaning. Bicentennial summons the world of Chiasson's seventies childhood in Vermont: early VCRs, snow, erections, pizza, snowmobiles, high-school cliques, and the Bicentennial celebration, but his book is also an elegy for his father, whom he never knew and who died in 2009. In these poems, Chiasson movingly...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385349815
• ISBN13: 9780385349819
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.4" x 8.6"